For nearly 30 years, John Galt Solutions has been recognized time and again for delivering the fastest time to value in supply chain planning software. Today, that speed is more important than ever. The pace of change in global supply chains demands solutions that deliver measurable business impact, quickly and sustainably.
Drawing from decades of experience helping companies of all sizes achieve rapid success, we’ve compiled five proven ways to fast-track value from your supply chain planning software. These best practices are based on what we’ve seen work consistently across industries as we help organizations accelerate ROI, strengthen resilience, and achieve supply chain excellence faster.
1. Start with a Clear Vision of Success
Clarity is the first step to an accelerated journey. Before launching your supply chain planning initiative, define what success looks like for your organization. What specific outcomes do you expect within 30, 60, or 90 days? How realistic are these expectations? Do you have the resources to make it happen?
Your roadmap should be aligned with business objectives. Whether it’s improving working capital investment, cash-flow impact, forecast accuracy, sustainability, or enhancing service levels, setting measurable goals ensures everyone, from executives to planners, stays aligned on the business value you’re targeting. This involves prioritizing different elements of the solution, understanding the different challenges, and predefining steps to mitigate the risks.
A clear vision also helps guide implementation priorities. Focus on the areas where improvements will deliver the greatest impact fastest. Identify “quick wins” to build organizational momentum and demonstrate early proof of value.
2. Leverage Configurable Best Practice Templates
One of the biggest reasons supply chain planning projects get bogged down is customization. While every business is unique, reinventing core planning processes from scratch usually delays results and drives up costs. Instead, look for a software platform that comes equipped with pre-configured best practices and implementation templates designed around proven industry standards. This helps dramatically reduce deployment time.
Supply chains all differ from one another, presenting their own set of challenges, and the importance of investing in a product that can fit your specific requirements is crucial. Choose a vendor that offers no-code/low-code, highly configurable software to shape the product to your specific needs. Configuration enables your team to adapt the system to your requirements without the need for lengthy coding cycles or complicated upgrades.
Partnering with a vendor like John Galt Solutions, which provides best practice templates and a rapid deployment methodology, ensures you don’t lose momentum. This approach allows your organization to get up and running faster, while still retaining the flexibility to evolve as your business grows.
3. Adopt an Agile Implementation Approach
Traditional, “big bang” implementations are notorious for delays and cost overruns. In contrast, an agile methodology breaks the project into manageable phases, delivering incremental value along the way. This approach ensures that teams can test, refine, and adapt quickly, reducing risk and accelerating ROI.
Your software vendor partner should provide a clear, structured agile framework with defined milestones and a timeline to keep the project on track and within budget. Each phase should end with a tangible outcome: a live capability that delivers measurable business benefit.
At John Galt Solutions, our Pathways to Evolve methodology is designed to help you start wherever you are in your supply chain maturity journey and accelerate toward your vision of planning excellence. This value-driven approach enables your organization to evolve at the pace that aligns with your goals (rather than forcing a one-size-fits-all implementation) while strengthening adoption and confidence in the system.
4. Empower Planners with User-Friendly Tools and Training
Even the best technology delivers little value if users struggle to adopt it. Fast time to value depends on empowering planners and decision-makers with tools that are intuitive, accessible, and designed for tackling the real-world challenges they face.
Look for an advanced supply chain planning solution that facilitates role-based dashboards, features guided workflows, and delivers AI-driven insights to simplify complex decisions. Your vendor should provide robust training and resources to help your team ramp up quickly.
The best partners go beyond basic system training to offer on-demand learning resources, workshops, and hands-on support to ensure rapid adoption. This investment in user enablement boosts productivity and ensures that your team can extract meaningful value from the system right away.
5. Beyond Go-Live: Continuously Measure and Optimize
Of course, getting value fast doesn’t stop at go-live. It’s an ongoing process. Build performance measurement into your implementation plan from day one. Track KPIs critical to your business to ensure the software is delivering against expectations.
You want your supply chain planning platform to make it easy to monitor performance and model what-if scenarios, helping your team identify new opportunities for optimization. Regularly reviewing these metrics enables your organization to refine processes, adjust parameters, and uncover new sources of value over time.
Ensure your vendor has resources available to help advance your team’s supply chain maturity. As your team embraces the tool’s capabilities, ensure there is a path for unlocking even more value including experimentation, the latest innovations in AI, probabilistic planning, simulations and more.
Accelerate Value with the Right Partner
At John Galt, achieving fast time to value isn’t just about technology – it’s about partnership. We combine proven methodologies, configurable best practice templates, and a long-term commitment to your success to ensure every project delivers results quickly and sustainably. Our 100% no-code/low-code approach means you never have to write new software to add a feature or modify a function, making enhancements faster, easier, and more cost-effective.
When it comes to achieving fast time to value, the right partner makes all the difference. John Galt Solutions provides the fastest way to achieve more value from your supply chain in the industry. In fact, 90% of our customers go live in 120 days or fewer. And we’re not talking about a cut-down version of your solution!
We don’t stop at go-live. From comprehensive training and onboarding to an extensive Pathways to Evolve library, webinars, and best practice resources on every aspect of supply chain optimization, we’re with you every step of the way. Our goal is to empower your team to continuously refine and elevate performance long after implementation.
Through our Atlas Planning Platform and agile deployment framework, we help companies like yours realize measurable value in record time. With decades of experience, deep supply chain expertise, and a relentless focus on speed to value, we enable teams to plan smarter, move faster, and achieve results sooner.
Let us show you how easy it can be to implement a solution that quickly transforms your supply chain to drive the best results.
